Learning k-modal distributions via testing

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Authors Constantinos Daskalakis, Ilias Diakonikolas, Rocco A. Servedio

Publication date 10 May 2019

Full work available at URL https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2095224

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Density estimation (62G07) Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Computational learning theory (68Q32) Randomized algorithms (68W20)

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